Elsässische Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Grafenstaden

The Alsatian Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Grafenstaden ( Embargo Act ) was a heavy industry company in the Alsatian Grafenstaden in Strasbourg.

1826 founded André Koechlin in Mulhouse in Alsace, the engineering company André Koechlin & Cie and found there steam engines, turbines, spinning and weaving, and from 1839 also steam locomotives ago. The further history of a firm is closely linked with the history of Alsace-Lorraine. After the lost war of 1870/71, France had to cede Alsace to the German Reich. Thus fell the nunmehrige Alsatian engineering company Andreas Koechlin & Cie. in Mulhouse and the machine shop Rollé & Schwillgué in Strasbourg Grafenstaden to the German Reich. The two works were in 1872 united the Alsace Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Grafenstaden.

The scale factory " Rollé & Schwillgué " that built mainly decimal scales for a patent of a Benedictine monk from 1821, was in 1837 bought by the Strasbourg engineering company, the workshop a year later, with a staff of 40 workers to Grafenstaden, a few kilometers south of Strasbourg, misplaced. In 1846 the manufacture of a Tender respondents began in 1856 by locomotives.

After the collection of Alsace-Lorraine by the German Empire in 1871 attracted many Alsatians, who felt as Frenchmen, in the area around Belfort. There, in 1872, the Société de Constructions Mécaniques Alsacienne, short SACM opened. After the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 Alsace -Lorraine, and thus the Alsatian Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft came Grafenstaden back to France, whereupon the latter merged with the SACM. The plant in Belfort was still operated until 1926 and 1928, acquired by Thomson - Houston and Alsthom, today Alstom.

After the occupation of Alsace 1941, the plant had to deliver to the German State Railroad Company compulsorily under the direction of Magdeburg Machine Tool Factory (MWF ) locomotives of the series 44 and series 52. After the Second World War, the factory was performed again under French management.

1951 Diesel locomotives the production of steam locomotives were built at the factory for the first time, on the other hand abandoned around 1955. The production of diesel locomotives was continued until 1965.

Production figures

After the merger of the two works was a common serial number counting, starting with the number 2118, recorded as Köchlin had built 1,412 and Grafenstaden 705 locomotives until then. The Dampflokbau ended with the serial number 8174th Since under 11 factory numbers no locomotives were delivered, the merged company SACM had consequently made ​​6,042 steam locomotives.

The 1951 to 1965 built diesel locomotives were given their own counting from serial number 10001 and 20,001th result is a series among others, the diesel locomotives of the railways of the Saarland, which came to the DB later. In the 10,000 - range, mainly type B ie, serial number 10199 was achieved, 20,000 records in the number field, type C- ie, only 23 machines were filed.